News
- Jan 27, 2026 - The Workshops list is out! Join us on Monday, June 1st, 2026.
- Jan 11, 2026 - Workshop proposal is accepted!🎉🎉
- Aug 18, 2025 - First workshop (proposal) on Shaping up the future of peer-review process at ICRA 2026!
Overview
As a community, we rely on a well-functioning peer-review system. Ideally, the authors should be receiving high-quality peer reviews on time, these reviews should be constructive, and support the acceptance and rejection decision-making process. At the same time, the reviewing workload should be distributed fairly. In recent years, the number of paper submissions to major robotics conferences has grown rapidly and we argue that we need to question whether the current system is indeed well-functioning and sustainable more than ever.
Workshop Goals. This workshop aims to 1) open up a discussion about our peer-review process and identify the most critical weaknesses, 2) come up with feasible and effective ideas to improve it, 3) collect and consolidate reviewer, associate editor, and editor guidelines, and 4) design follow-up monitoring, communication and training activities for a continuous assessment and improvement of the reviewing process.
Invited Speakers
Schedule
| Time | Planned Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| 08:45 | Training the Community for High-Quality Reviewing | Tamin Asfour |
| 09:00 | “How to review” for doctoral students | Serena Ivaldi |
| 09:15 | AUTOLAB Advice on Reviewing Papers | Ken Golberg |
| 09:30 | Beyond the “Submission Surge”: Distributing Reviews and Training New Reviewer | Antonio Bicchi |
| 09:45 | Fair Engagement | Nadia Figueroa |
| 10:00 | Peer review and whether, and if so how, to use GenAI tools for reviewing | Jeannette Bohg |
| 10:15 | Double-Blind Peer Review | Aude Billard |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Think-pair-share Session | Javier Civera |
| 12:00 | Moderated Final Panel | Tobias Fischer | 12:30 | The Good Reviewer: Shaping up the future of peer-review process |
